Ready Access to Budget Data

The Concord Coalition has launched a new website feature to provide its grassroots members around the country with the latest statistics on the federal budget and the national debt.

“Anyone who has had to work with charts, graphs and presentations has probably experienced the frustration of having different versions in different places, and trying to figure out which ones have been updated with the latest information,” says Stefan Byrd-Krueger, new media and outreach director for Concord, in a blog posting Monday. “That's why we created the Indicators section so that all the interactive charts, images, and downloadable data files are updated across the site the minute we get new data.”

Concord is providing HTML embed code so that visitors to its website can place the same interactive charts on their own blogs or websites – and have them updated automatically.